Ahhhh George, don't worry. I am still going along with my favorite astro friends again this year! I may well end up buying something.....as I always do. I can never go to this event to come home empty handed!

Ahhhh George, don't worry. I am still going along with my favorite astro friends again this year! I may well end up buying something.....as I always do. I can never go to this event to come home empty handed!

Ahhhh George, don't worry. I am still going along with my favorite astro friends again this year! I may well end up buying something.....as I always do. I can never go to this event to come home empty handed!

....a thought that should warm the heart of the most depressed astro equipment vendor!

Stop in a check out the Kopernik and Adirondack guys. We have nothing to sell, but will gladly take your $$.

I was bad before NEAF as I got a new full frame camera do most (well all my hobby budget has been blown I am still going but other than a 14mm ES 100° I am not getting anything else well going to defiant brewery to get 2 growlers of fresh beer but that's it.

I just got a new QSI camera so blew my budget too. However I still have one thing on my bucket list, I want a nice smallish refractor for visual someday, like a TEC140. But I need to wait so in the mean time I was wanting to look at some of the cheaper ES or AT to hold me over.

If I don't find anything then at least I enjoy the social side of seeing a lot of familar faces.

Ill be showing up with my son as a visitor for the first time in YEARS of attending as a vendor.. Forgot where the darn front door is.. Kinda stinks I'll not be behind the cam for the annual CN show walkthrough..

I'll be wearing a Galaxy Log t-shirt, and keeping tabs on my friend and club mate Mr. Mitsky, since now he's gone BIG time with a new dob. Don't want him blowing all his money on completing his set of Ethos and Delos eyepieces

I'll be wearing a Galaxy Log t-shirt, and keeping tabs on my friend and club mate Mr. Mitsky, since now he's gone BIG time with a new dob. Don't want him blowing all his money on completing his set of Ethos and Delos eyepieces

I'll be wearing a Galaxy Log t-shirt, and keeping tabs on my friend and club mate Mr. Mitsky, since now he's gone BIG time with a new dob. Don't want him blowing all his money on completing his set of Ethos and Delos eyepieces

I was there 9:00AM and left around 11. Pretty good turnout, but missed Astronomics, APM and thought some vendors scaled back a little with mounts and ota's available for purchase at the show when compared to the last time I was there, two years ago.

Well day #1 at NEAF was nice! Yup, I ended up buying a cool Moonlite focuser again but this time it has a awesome motorized rotator on it too! That is gonna be so neat when I am searching for a guide star for imaging with my Meade SCT! The day started off sor tof light but then by mid afternoon, it really got crowded. Some of the vendors were busy as heck all day long. Not a moment to rest. Others were kind of slow. Tomorrow I am going to spend some time outside at the solar party. The weather here is pretty decent too with scattered clouds and sunshine with temperatures in the mid 50's.

Well day #1 at NEAF was nice! Yup, I ended up buying a cool Moonlite focuser again but this time it has a awesome motorized rotator on it too! That is gonna be so neat when I am searching for a guide star for imaging with my Meade SCT! The day started off sor tof light but then by mid afternoon, it really got crowded. Some of the vendors were busy as heck all day long. Not a moment to rest. Others were kind of slow. Tomorrow I am going to spend some time outside at the solar party. The weather here is pretty decent too with scattered clouds and sunshine with temperatures in the mid 50's.